File contains drawings by President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, headed with a note that reads: "My first drafts of Library with narrow front allowing of Extension to footprint size." His drawings show the library as being a long, south-facing building with three floors and plans to extend wings on either side.
File contains 12 presentation drawings signed by Andrew R. Cobb, Architect, and dated between August and September 1921. There are six drawings of the north elevation and five of the south elevation, each featuring variations in window design, and some containing notes indicating suggestions or preferences of F.D. (Architect Frank Darling), A.S.M. (President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie) and G.F.P.
File contains two sheets containing drawings of a building designed to serve as Arts offices and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually to a university museum.
Item is an unsigned sketch (likely by President Arthur MacKenzie) for the Macdonald Library that indicates two lecture rooms, a faculty room, offices for the president, bursar and secretary, and coat and toilet facilities for faculty.
Item is an unsigned sketch, likely drawn by President Arthur MacKenzie, of first and second floor plans for the Macdonald Library, indicating stack rooms and undefined extensions to the rear of the building as well as the front.
Item is a second floor plan of the Macdonald Library as suggested (and perhaps drawn) by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, who was president of Dalhousie from 1911-1931.
Item is a first floor plan of the Macdonald Library as suggested (and perhaps drawn) by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, who was president of Dalhousie from 1911-1931.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to the Macdonald Memorial Library, now known as the Macdonald Building.
File contains a floor plan and exterior elevations for the MacDonald Library stacks, which show three different window styles for the east facing wall. There are also some early floor plans for the library indicating room appointments and elevations of bookshelves. Drawings are by both Andrew Cobb and Frank Darling.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to the Science Building, now the Chemistry Building, the first building constructed on Studley Campus, started in 1912 and completed in 1915.
Item is a site plan for Studley campus produced by Mackenzie & Howe, Landscape Architects and Artists. On the reverse is written: "Trial suggestion of ASM for laying-out of grounds and approved with slight changes (shown in red) by Darling and Mawson, and adopted." A.S.M. is Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, Dalhousie University president.
File contains a set of four blueprint floor plans for the President's residence at Dalhousie University drawn by H.R. Theakston, University Engineer, in July 1925. The second floor plan indicates furniture placement and the reverse of the third floor plan is covered with handwritten notes and measurements. The file also contains six sheets of floor plans drawn up by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, who was the first Dalhousie president to live in the house after its purchase by the university in 1925.
File contains potential site plans for Dalhousie University's Studley campus as well as landscape plans indicating actual plantings. There is also one drawing of a unrealized medical school site plan.
Item is a pencil sketch of a plan for Dalhousie University's Studley campus. The drawing was produced by President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie; written on the back is: "One of early attempts by ASM to design the campus. When slightly modified it became final design."
